Professional Staff Nurse, OR (Full-time Flex) UPMC West Shore

UPMC; Mechanicsburg (Cumberland County); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-On Bonus

Loan Repayment

Paid Time Off

Tuition Reimbursement

Career Ladders

Job summary

UPMC is recruiting for a Hybrid OR RN to join our fast-paced team. You will prepare the operating room for procedures, provide focused patient care, and assist with circulating and scrubbing for vascular procedures.

Candidates typically have zero to two years of experience, a BSN preferred, and must meet RN licensure requirements; the role offers rotating shifts, opportunities for career ladders, and strong support for tuition reimbursement and loan repayment.

Qualifications

• Zero to two years of nursing experience.
• BSN preferred.
• Ability to establish and maintain positive relationships with staff and patients.
• Mobility and manual dexterity for patient handling.

Responsibilities

• Prepare the operating room for procedures and assist in surgeries.
• Provide focused and meaningful patient care and assess patients.
• Collaborate with anesthesia, imaging, lab, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Perform scrub and circulator duties as required.
• Adapt to procedure-specific needs and surgeon preferences.

Skills

Patient care

Documentation

Scrub role

Circulator role

Team communication

Education

BSN preferred

Job description

UPMC is committed to investing in nurses like you –financially, personally, and professionally –starting on day one of your career. From tackling student loans to advancing your career later in life, UPMC is the partner you need to succeed and thrive in your nursing career. Here’s how we support our nurses:

• Generous Sign-On Bonus of up to $15,000* (*Amount and eligibility based on type of nursing role and candidate experience)
• UPMC’s Monthly Loan Repayment Program, exclusively for 2026 nursing graduates, offering $20,000* in loan repayment paid over three years (*Eligible flex full-time RN roles to receive a prorated amount)
• Up to five and a half weeks of Paid Time Off annually, plus seven paid holidays each year
• Dedicated career ladders, including a brand-new nursing career ladder added just this year, allowing you to achieve your highest potential while rewarding you for your experience and advanced education.
• Tuition reimbursement of up to $6,000 per academic year at any accredited institution, available to employees and their dependents (plus discounts for UPMC employees including no cost RN-BSN/MSN options!)

Join our fast-paced Hybrid OR team, where no two days or cases are alike. In this role, you will prepare the operating room for procedures, provide focused and meaningful patient care, complete procedure-specific assessments, and support surgeries by circulating and/or scrubbing. You will collaborate closely with anesthesia, perianesthesia, imaging, laboratory, and other multidisciplinary teams to deliver safe, high-quality, and efficient care. This position primarily supports percutaneous and open vascular procedures in a dynamic surgical environment.

Responsibilities

• Patient assessment.
• Documentation.
• Utilization of preference cards, knowledge, and experience to learn/know procedures and surgeon preferences to anticipate the needs of the patient and surgical team (in the scrub role and circulator role).
• Translate learned skills to other facets of practice (e.g., using knowledge of how to scrub a procedure to better anticipate the needs of the team).
• Performs scrub role (requirement for RNs hired on or after July 1, 2023).
• *Performs in accordance with system-wide competencies/behaviors.*Performs other duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: Rotating shifts – predominantly day shift (7am-3:30pm) but will rotate to evening shift (1pm-9:30pm or 3pm-11:30pm) and night shift (9pm-7:30am or 11pm-7:30am); weekends and holidays; call; frequency and more specifics will be discussed during the interview

• The individual must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care and/or interact appropriately to the ages of the patients served by his/her assigned unit as specified below.
• They must also demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient’s status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patients requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs and to provide the care needs as described in the department policy and procedures.
• Zero to two years of experience. BSN preferred.
• Ability to establish and maintain positive, caring relationships with executives, managers, physicians, non-physician providers, ancillary and support staff, other departments, and patients/families.
• Ability to work productively and effectively within a complex environment, handle multiple/changing priorities and specialized equipment. Good clinical judgment with critical thinking, analytical and problem solving abilities required as related to various aspects of patient care. Critical thinking skills necessary to exercise and to lead others in application of the nursing process.
• Mobility and visual manual dexterity. Physical stamina for frequent walking, standing, lifting and positioning of patients.

***UPMC offers a variety of flexible options – in addition to traditional rotating/flexible shifts, special programs exist to work primarily night shifts or weekend shifts with a premium pay differential. Employees hired as or who choose to transition into one of these programs at a later time must have at least 6 months of nursing experience to qualify and may be required to complete any necessary orientation during regular business hours.***

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances

• Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• Registered Nurse (RN) OR Temporary Practice Permit (TPP)
• Act 31 Child Abuse Reporting with renewal
• Act 33 with renewal
• Act 34 with renewal
• Act 73 FBI Clearance with renewal
• Current licensure either in the state where the facility is located or, if the facility is in a state covered by the multistate Nursing Licensure Compact (NLC) agreement, a multistate license issued by a participating NLC state. Hires and current employees working on an out-of-state NLC license who later change their residency to the state where the facility is also located will have 60 days upon changing their residency to apply for licensure within that state.

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran